54 CLXXIII. GEAMINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) . [Panicum. 



ASSAM ; Qoalpara, Hamilton. SILHET, CACHAR, the KHASIA and NAGA HILLS, 

 and the JHEELS. 



Perennial. Gregarious in water (Clarke). Habit of P. montanum, but much 

 more slender, with narrower leaves 4-8 by ^-5 in., a smaller panicle, with shorter 

 .pedicels and much smaller spikelets. G-l. II fugacious. 



Var. ? per ale ens e ; stem robust nearly as stout as a goose-quill below, leaves ^ in. 

 broad, spikelets broader, nerves stronger. Perak, King's Collector (n. 2546). 

 Probably a different species. 



46. P. khasianum, Nunro mss.; tall, leaves, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate base narrowly cordate, panicle very large branches very long 

 slender smooth, pedicels long or short, spikelets subsolitary tV~TV i n - 

 ellipsoid snbacute glabrous, gl. I minute much shorter than III, nerves 

 or 3 obscure, II and III subequal 5-nerved, HI epaleate, IV elliptic-oblong 

 subacute smooth. 



E. NEPAL and SiivEra, alt. 4-700Q ft., J. D. H., Clarice. KHASIA HILLS, in 

 marshes, alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Perennial. Stem prostrate and creeping below, then erect, 3-6 ft. Leaves 6-12 

 by f-li in., thin, glabrous hairy or subscabrid, many. nerved, base usually contracted 

 with incurved auricles, not or obscurely ciliate ; sheath smooth or hispidly hairy, 

 mouth bearded ; ligule very short, ciliate. Panicle 6-12 in., often as broad ; lower 

 branches nearly as long, solitary or fascicled, unbranched below. Near P. montanwn, 

 differing in the narrower leaf-base, very short gl. I, and in gl. II not fugacious. 

 Also near P. sarmentosum, from which the minute gl. I distinguishes it. 

 t 



** Gl. Illpaleate. . 



.47. P. sarmentosum, Roxb.Fl.Ind.i. 308; tall, branch ed, scandent, 

 leaves long base narrow rounded, panicle pyramidal or ovoid loosely 

 branched glabrous, rachis smooth, branches half-whorled capillary, spikelets 

 T8~rV i D -> sessile or shortly pedicelled ovoid tips obtuse ciliolate, gl. I = ^ 

 III or more obtuse or subacute 3-5-nerved, II and III subequal orbicular 

 nerves 5 broad, III palea small narrow, IV small ellipsoid subacute dorsally 

 rounded smooth. Kunth JEnum. PI. i. 126; Steud. Syn. Gram. 98. P. 

 micrognostum & P. vacillans, Steud. I. c. 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 45t>. 

 P. concinnum, Nees in Hook. Kew'Journ. ii. (1850) 97 ; Steud. I.e. 78 ; Miq. 

 Lc. 457. P. incomptum, Trin. Diss.ii. 200, Gram. Panic. 200, Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 232; Eunth I.e. 112; Steud. I.e. 88; Nees in Mart. FL Bras. ii. 207; 

 Herb. Wight (Kew Distril. n. 6492). P. maximum, Wall. Cat, n. 8715 E. 

 P. tjicoyaeuse, Steud. I. c. 70. ? P. incomptum, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. 

 Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8709. 



ASSAM, SILHET, CACHAR, and the KHASIA HILLS, ascending to 5000 ft., 

 CHITTAGONG, BURMA, and the MALAY PENINSULA. DISTEIB. Malay Islds., China, 

 Tonkin. 



Perennial. Stems attaining 50 ft., often as thick as a goose-quill, solid, pubescent 

 or glabrous', with whorls of long wiry slender branching roots at the bearded nodes 

 below, whence the flowering branches issue. Leaves 12-15 by -li in., linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, smooth or hairy on both 

 surfaces or beneath especially, many-nerved ; sheaths smooth or sparsely hairy ; 

 ligule a brush of hairs. Panicle 6-12 in., very variable, branches erect or spreading, 

 long or short, brauchlets often creeping and entangling, straight or flexuous. Spike- 

 lets erect or spreading. Duthie gives P. incomptum as a native of Garwhal, alt. 

 4-5000 ft., but I have not seen P. sarmentosum, Roxb. from the westward of Assam, and 

 1 suspect that P. montanum is the plant intended. Of P. concinnum, which is 



